Everything is Political

Politics is something that I think about often. I feel like if I am not talking about it that I am not breathing. In the political climate that the United States is in right now, politics play a role in your everyday life. As a woman, I think about how my reproductive rights are being threatened every day. I am also a member of the LGBTQIA community. That is a big part of who I am as a person. Where I live, someone got offended by a rainbow buffalo and thought that "the gays' were in alternating their child. Our mayor was nowhere near our pride celebration. Yet he can back a bigot for Governor. The LGBTQIA community is a part of South Dakota. We pay taxes and have families too. I am lucky to work at a place that I don't have to fear that will fire me. South Dakota does not protect the LGBTQIA community under hate crime laws. Everything we do is political. Choosing not to be political is choosing to go with the status quo. When that rainbow buffalo went down, people questioned. Statements like "Sometimes a rainbow buffalo is just a rainbow buffalo." Maybe so, but that child they would have just seen a rainbow buffalo. Their mother saw it and was consumed with hate for us. Then she got political. Supporters of the buffalo, like myself, were just as political. There is nothing wrong with showing support to a group of people in the community. We pay taxes, have families, shop, love, own homes, and live lives. Being a woman weighs on my mind as well. When I have sex it is told to me that it is my responsibility to make sure that I don't reproduce. Or just don't have sex at all. Before going on, yes I am a member of the LGBTQIA community. No, I am not a lesbian. I am Pansexual. Moving on, so I am told that if I get pregnant I am a slut and need to live with my decision. My right to my body should outweigh the unborn fetus. That very same government that says the fetus is more important than the woman... Does not care about it once it is born. Politics if everything right now. If you don't have to think about it, then you are privileged or just don't know.

Xenophobia

Xenophobia has been a problem in the United States for years, however since the rise of the Zcar Trump. I mean since Trump won the electoral college votes, racism and xenophobia have been more rampant and obvious. Calling out to people "Go back to where you came from." seems to be a chant from the right wing more and more. Let's think here for a moment... Before parts of the United States were settled, every white person was an immigrant. They slaughtered and pushed the Native people out. If killing them by force didn't work, the diseases that they brought over did. Latin American countries did the same thing except it was the Spanish. Most of us are descendants of immigrants. The difference is they were not brown. Tomi Lahren's family history came out and we learned that when some of her family members came over that the did not know how to speak English. Yet she still speaks hate on those who are seeking a better life. There is a problem in this country, and it is not the non-white people. The problem lies in the racism. Has it occurred to anyone that there are Latin people born in this country every day? This is their home too. They have every right to be here.